Re: [Matplotlib-users] bug (annoyance) and fix in DraggableAnnotation.finalize_offset()

[Valentine C. J. <Jo....@na...>]

Šand this afternoon, shortly after I sent this email, my test cases for
this approach abruptly stopped functioning. Whoops. So y'all may want to
hold off on this.
(I thought it looked too easyŠ)

Been that kind of day. :)
-jo

On 7/2/13 11:57 AM, "Valentine Cooper, Jo"
<Jo....@na...> wrote:

>Ran into a bug this morning with draggable annotations. It would seem that
>finalize_offset() forcibly overrides the annotation's textcoords status to
>"axes fraction" so it can set the coordinates properly. That's all well
>and good, but if you were using some text coordinates system other than
>"axes fraction" (say, for example, "data"), this can cause fun side
>effects such as annotations that used to pan around with the rest of the
>graph suddenly being frozen in place. :(
>
>Attached is a patch to restore the old textcoords mode in
>finalize_offset(). All it does  is save the old textcoords mode before
>making the change to "axes fraction" and restores it afterwards.
>
>Hope this helps!
>-jo
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